On 6/28/06, Tyler MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
William A. Rowe, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unless it's opened with Win32 API SPARSEFILE flag, yes it will grind away.... Is there any reason that shouldn't be added to APR? It would seem that would make something running under Win32/APR behave more like Unix/APR and therefore encourage the P is for Portability...
Because it's impossible to implement portably. There's no good way to figure out that a specific filesystem is actually capable of using sparse files. -garrett
